Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

摘要: In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of book, William Cronon writes environmentalist goal wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among ironies entanglements resulting from this are sale nature in our malls through Nature Company, disputes between working people environmentalists over spotted owls other objects species preservation. The problem we haven't learned to live responsibly nature. aim legislating humans out no solution. People, argues, inextricably tied nature, whether they cities or countryside. Rather than attempt exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn some sustainable relationship with It home.